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Building an Automated Build and Release Server for PixInsight

By On December 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment

PixInsight 1.6.9 introduced a new automated update system – a system that allows developers to easily deploy updates as soon as they are ready.  Automated deployment can be both amazingly convenient for your users and a complete nightmare for the developer. Without proper automation accidents will happen and user experience will suffer.  This post details a method [...]

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Sky Limited Exposure Script for PixInsight

By On November 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This script now has its own page, http://www.cerebiggum.com/software/sky-limited-exposure/

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First Light with the ST-8300

By On November 16, 2010 · 2 Comments

I decided to purchase an SBIG ST-8300M to replace the 10D and 5DMkII for astrophotography. Although these camera are amazing performers they just don’t hold up without modifications for deep sky subjects due to their muffled sensitivity to hydrogen-alpha light. I also own an SBIG STV and SBIG ST-5C and the company makes great hardware. [...]

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Scaled Dark Frames in MaxIm DL and PixInsight

By On November 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I’m evaluating MaxIm DL and PixInsight at the same time because I only want to purchase one image processing package. The first significant obstacle I’ve come across is that PixInsight doesn’t seem to scale dark frames very well. I’ve run the exact same calibration process on the same image and I get completely different results [...]

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Worst Phone Ever

By On June 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I love the iPhone as everything but a phone.  I barely get any reception where I live or where I work.  It feels like I get dropped calls all the time. I didn’t know there was any way to get real quantitative information about your experiences, until now.  It turns out that when you sync [...]

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